A tweet too far? On Sunday, President Trump explicitly condemned Attorney General Jeff Sessions for bringing charges against two Republican congressmen so soon before the 2018 midterm elections.

"Two long running, Obama era, investigations of two very popular Republican Congressmen were brought to a well publicized charge, just ahead of the Mid-Terms, by the Jeff Sessions Justice Department," Trump tweeted.

"Two easy wins now in doubt because there is not enough time. Good job Jeff……"

The president appears to suggest that getting Republicans elected should come before impartial application of the law. Obviously, it set off alarms across political media and observers, with many suggesting that this goes above and beyond Trump's typically awful Twitter tirades.

This is how you normalize Presidential corruption: Slowly put it more and more in the open until everyone just shrugs that *of course* the President wants to use law enforcement for partisan ends. https://t.co/AExNWVggH4

Few within the GOP, however, have condemned or even commented on Trump's statement. So far, the total conservative congressional outcry seems to come from Nebraska Sen. Ben Sasse, Arizona Sen. Jeff Flake, and Michigan Rep. Justin Amash.

"The United States is not some banana republic with a two-tiered system of justice—one for the majority party and one for the minority party," said Sasse in a statement.

The two men Trump was referring to—Reps. Chris Collins (R–New York) and Duncan D. Hunter (R–Calif.), both big Trump supporters—"have been charged with crimes because of evidence, not because of who the President was when the investigations began," Sasse's statement continued. "Instead of commenting on ongoing investigations and prosecutions," Trump should be concerned with "defend[ing] the Constitution and protect[ing] the impartial administration of justice."

Outgoing Sen. Jeff Flake (R–Ariz.) tweeted a Washington Post article on the outburst, adding, "This is not the conduct of a President committed to defending and upholding the constitution, but rather a President looking to use the Department of Justice to settle political scores."

In addition, Amash was also slightly critical, tweeting out that "we must never place politics above the rule of law."

"But there are still a number of unanswered questions when it comes to his jurisprudence," Root adds. He suggests five topics that senators should ask Kavanaugh about in the coming days, including executive power, National Security Agency data collection, and unenumerated rights.

Meanwhile, at The New York Times, Emily Bazelon argues that Kavanaugh gets promoted as an originalist, but "hasn't earned his originalist badge. It's being fixed to him to mask the fact that as an appeals court judge, he relentlessly pressed forward a Republican agenda favoring business and religious interests."

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Why are Twitter conservatives cutting up their Nike socks? To protest the brand's new choice of a spokesperson, professional quarterback Colin Kaepernick. A new ad campaign featuring Kaepernick features the slogan "Believe in something, even if it means sacrificing everything." Kaepernick, who has had an endorsement deal with Nike since 2011, became a recent target of the president after taking a knee during the National Anthem. He is currently suing the NFL.

The New Yorkerinvited and then disinvited former Trump advisor and Breitbart News head Steve Bannon to headline its annual Ideas Festival, after other speakers threatened to pull out over Bannon's inclusion.

Given the author's disdain for CDA 230, CDA 230 defenders, "Internet evangelists" like EFF, FOSTA/SESTA opponents, and the First Amendment in general, I'm much happier to be part of this libertarian fever swamp than to be in the author's camp. https://t.co/N8esikgJUBpic.twitter.com/Yt0BcckXpw

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The Fuji, Ambrosia, Envy, Koru, Opal, Cameo, and Kiku are all fine eating apples. Red Delicious, for me are only tasty when they are fresh off the tree, Sept/Oct. The plus to the RD is that they are practically indestructible. They store well for months.

Liar! Republicans controlled the House in 2011 when Jackson and Blagojevich were investigated.

“The bipartisan 10-member panel has been investigating whether Jackson improperly raised money for former Illinois governor Rod Blagojevich (D) in an effort to win appointment to the Senate seat formerly held by President Obama. ”

Rod is a victim of Illinois state politics and I never said jail. I said ‘go after’.

I would give you credit for an Illinois State Legislature run by Democrats going after a Democrat Governor Blagojevich, except that (1) it was to cover for Obama’s involvement in the deal (2) Blagojevich was already on the outs with Democratic leadership.

Rod Blagojevich was deemed too big to be a team player inside Illinois politics.

So, as I said, Republicans go after Republicans and Democrats as with the GOP controlled House in 2011 going after Jesse Jackson and Rod Blagojevich.

As for Bob Menendez, he was implicated in a 2012 underage sex scandal while in the Dominican Republic. In 2013, a federal grand jury began investigating Menendez for corruption related events, including Dominican Republic shenanigans again. The DOJ indicted him in 2015.

Not sure what the political makeup of the Federal Grand Jury was, but it surely was not the pride of the Democratic party going after their own.

1) You said the House was “going after” Blagojevich…when he had already been convicted by the Obama DOJ. Jackson had an ethics investigation started in 2009, and the Justice investigation was already open.

As for Menendez, the underage sex turned out to be a hoax. The grand jury investigation was brought by the DOJ:http://www.washingtonpost.com/…..3623c7a15a

A grand jury probe, which involves a prosecutor pursuing allegations with an eye toward possible indictment, typically represents a legal escalation, though it does not always lead to a prosecution.

Former Philly cop Ryan Pownall will be indicted on Tuesday on first-degree murder charges in the June 2017 shooting death of David Jones. https://t.co/2bP41Z55Zn pic.twitter.com/QgHOOfRrzV ? Philly Mag (@phillymag) September 4, 2018

This could have a chilling effect on Filthacrapia law enforcement acting like assholes if any of them were actually acting.

America is moving toward an oligarchical socialism Oligarchal socialism allows for the current, ever-growing concentration of wealth and power in a few hands ? notably tech and financial moguls ? while seeking ways to ameliorate the reality of growing poverty, slowing social mobility and indebtedness. This will be achieved not by breaking up or targeting the oligarchs, which they would fight to the bitter end, but through the massive increase in state taxpayer support.

…Handouts, including housing subsidies, could guarantee for the next generation a future not of owned houses, but rented small, modest apartments. Unable to grow into property-owning adults, they will subsist while playing with their phones, video games and virtual reality in what Google calls “immersive computing.”

…Particularly since Donald Trump’s election, the leaders of corporate America ? especially in tech and finance ? have merged with the Democrats. They appeal to progressives by advocating politically correct views on immigration, gender rights and climate change, while muzzling conservatives both inside and outside their companies.

…Theoretically, the Democrats moving to the left should terrify the oligarchs. Yet increased income guarantees, nationalized health care, housing subsidies, rent control and free education could also help firms maintain a gig-oriented economy since these employers do not provide the basic benefits often offered by more traditional “evil” corporations in energy, manufacturing and basic business services.

the leaders of corporate America ? especially in tech and finance ? have merged with the Democrats. They appeal to progressives by advocating politically correct views on immigration, gender rights and climate change, while muzzling conservatives both inside and outside their companies.

Why do you think they do that, JL?

Yet increased income guarantees, nationalized health care, housing subsidies, rent control and free education could also help firms maintain a gig-oriented economy

Yeah… No. That’s not why. Tech doesn’t get “guaranteed incomes” by aligning themselves to Progressives and Tech knows it. That’s not the reason. Nor is it “universal hleathcare”, whatever that means. The new entrepreneurs who started these tech companies are simply NOT Trumpistas. Look at the Trumpista radical base ??economically unsophisticated and even buffoonish, xenophobic, protectionist, insular, jingoistic?? not precisely a pro-market, pro-individual liberty bunch. The tech and industry giants sense less HOSTILITY towards them from Progressives than from Trumpistas which should at least give you some pause.

But the tech company entrepreneurs were on board with team D long before Trump came along. In fact, they helped Hillary and the DNC push Trump to the front during the Republican primaries, precisely because they thought it would help Hillary win.

Alphabet (Google) Chairman Eric Schmidt started The Groundwork long before Trump was a thing, explicitly to help Hillary and other Democrat candidates – by pretty much doing exactly what they accuse “the Russians” of doing to help Trump. They even have a back-door link directly into Google’s systems.

And that is far from the only example. They all met long before the 2016 cycle to discuss ways of controlling the news cycle. That’s where “fake news” came from. They even set up a committee to determine “truth” – featuring prominent 3rd wave feminists and other far-left political activists.

So no, tech aligns with progressives for reasons that are entirely independent of Trump and Trump supporters. Well, unless causality is somehow reversed, or perhaps their sophisticated prediction algorithms told them years in advance that Trump was going to win and all of this was going to be the result.

In fact, they helped Hillary and the DNC push Trump to the front during the Republican primaries, precisely because they thought it would help Hillary win.

Even more to the point, it was their workforce that worked on the digital teams for the Gore, Kerry, and Obama campaigns. Their relationship with the Democrats goes back years.

If they weren’t, James Damore would still be employed at Google, and Google wouldn’t have conducted struggle sessions in the wake of his manifesto. Alex Jones wouldn’t have been systematically deplatformed. Their employees wouldn’t openly admit that they manipulate their algorithms to shadow-ban conservatives and suppress non-progressive. Netflix wouldn’t be pimping hard for a form of “Net Neutrality” that’s anything but. The NYT wouldn’t have hired Sarah Jeong, who literally wrote the book on how to suppress Wrongthink in the digital sphere.

Anyone who thinks that Big Tech is aligning with the Democrats due to their “pro-market, pro-liberty” stances is, quite simply, a moron who hasn’t observed these firms in action the last 15-plus years. They’re “libertarian-leaning” only in the anarcho-tyrannic sense, but their politics are thoroughly progressive.

The big tech firms have lots of assets tied up in areas where state and local politics are overwhelming dominated by Democrats and are vulnerable to antitrust action, which Republicans have historically had less interest in. Making a big show of social liberalism that is a cost-effective way to forestall economic regulations; notice how Facebook started taking sides politically in the period immediately following it’s rapid market share increase from around 35% to 70%.

A focus on such basic issues could reorder not just the Democratic Party but the country itself. Faced with limited future prospects, more millennials already prefer socialism to capitalism and generally renounce constitutionally sanctioned free speech ? not something you like to see in what will soon be the largest voting bloc in the country.

Sounds like my step son and his girlfriend! They are running out of money. They have not worked in the three months that they moved into my motor home. They have not figured out how that money and work things go, yet. It is because grandma and grandpa don’t know how to say, “NO!”

I think his support for unconstitutional domestic spying is his major fault.

I would agree with that, although I suppose it might be argued that some of his positions might be more based out of technical ignorance than from actual police deference. But there are a number of judges on the court already who are strong on 4A, and fewer on 2A, and 2A is under far more assault than the others anyway. I mean, in an ideal world I’d like a judge who was equally (and positively) respectful of all the BoR, but I’ll take some gaming of the system for now if I have to.

This is how you normalize Presidential corruption: Slowly put it more and more in the open until everyone just shrugs that *of course* the President wants to use law enforcement for partisan ends. https://t.co/AExNWVggH4 ? Orin Kerr (@OrinKerr) September 3, 2018

A study by Western Journal found that since 2017 liberal publishers have seen an increase of 1.86% in traffic. The same study found conservative publishers saw a decrease of 13.71% during the same time period.

If you combine the total number of pageviews lost by just these two conservative online publishers you are looking at a loss of over 1.5 billion pageviews from Facebook in one year.

Haha. Great show. Brits create some Americanized gems occasionally. They always seem to end when they start to get a following though. Socialist British tv TOP MEN need to push the next bad tv show, I guess.

This battle over the future of the Supreme Court might be the most important test yet for the progressive / libertarian alliance. We must put aside our minor differences over things like minimum wage laws and work together to stop an illegitimate Kremlin asset President from turning this country into The Handmaid’s Tale.

The Sessions appointment was bad to being with; he’s a troglodyte drug warrior like what’s his face Joe Biden, who coined the term ‘drug czar’ after watching Reefer Madness, and thought goober mint must do more to warn the nations youth about the dangerous reefer and how it’s a gateway drug to LSD, the most addictive drug ever.

And the modern day reefer is more powerful than the Woodstock reefer.

I’d like to see The Donald if not end the war on drugs, at least re-legalize marijuana. It would be interesting to see how the ProgTards take it since what ever he does they’re against.

PRIMORDIAL ARCHETYPES So this isn’t just as simple as she got knocked up by her Alpha lover and tricked her Beta husband into believing the inseminated sperm was his own. She had to actually go to the trouble of collecting two samples of sperm, convincing the IVF clinic’s doctor and staff into making the swap (and then withholding the truth from the father) and then carrying the pregnancy to term and keeping her husband ignorant of the ruse for a year. This may seem like the deviousness of a particular woman, but remember, she had to enlist the confidence of Dr. Kazaryan and other clinicians (I presume also female).

I do find it interesting that not a single Democrat has been charged with political corruption since US Senator Bob Mendez skated on corruption charges. No corrupt Democrat politicians out there anymore? Really?

“So, are criminal investigations of candidates before elections kosher or interfering with Democracy?

Incidentally, using the IRS to run interference for Democrats isn’t supposed to be kosher either. That’s one of those situations where it’s okay to talk about it–but no one’s supposed to do anything about it.

I swear, Chelsea Manning and Edward Snowden would be heroes in the MSM’s eyes–if they hadn’t committed the unpardonable sin of making the Obama administration look bad.

If you need to speak your truth, go ahead, but for god’s sake, do it when there isn’t an election about to happen–especially one as important as this. We’re going to impeach the president, doncha know, and we can’t have a bunch of facts, logic, and reason getting in the way, m-kay?

>>>This is not the conduct of a President committed to defending and upholding the constitution, but rather a President looking to use the Department of Justice to settle political scores.”

That is the established new norm, yes. I bet a few highly-placed legislators could have done something to keep this from becoming the established norm, except they didn’t see any personal benefit to it at the time, and here we are.

Fortunately they see a personal benefit to objecting to the established norm now that Trump’s doing it, so we can focus entirely on Trump in his role as penultimate villain while utterly ignoring the mores and means by which this became the norm.

These people are like Cato the Younger and the other Optimates who protested Caesar’s corruption, all the while marinating in the privileges accorded to their social status that led to Caesar’s rise in the first place.

Hollywood Cut Out The Flag, So Let’s Cut Out Hollywood Hollywood, we have to put up with elected doofuses, at least until election time. But you? We can screw with you anytime we please. And we’re going to. You spent tens of millions making a really pretty movie and you just turned your investment into a big, heaping pile of what San Franciscans have to dodge walking down the sidewalk.

Ryan Gosling or whatever his name claims that Neil Armstrong was really progressive and felt like it was a human accomplishment not an American one. Chuck Yeager, who is, in my opinion, the greatest living American and runs a fabulous twitter feed, responded: “that is not the Neil Armstrong I knew”.

Gosling and the rest of his class would be shocked at how nationalistic the Great Depression/WW2 generation actually was. They might have supported the UN, but only in the context of the US being the top global dog.

I’ve officially cut the cord, and using all these other services now . . . isn’t Hollywood due for what happened to the music industry?

I found an amazing and huge TV for not much bread, and between Roku and various apps, I can browse what’s on–and pick the distribution channel based on price. I’ve got two choices on Vudu, (one free with advertising, one for $1.99 with no advertising), and then it’s on Crackle, broadcast TV, and Netflix, too?

Why would I go to the movie theater anymore?

It used to be about art films, but those are even more accessible at home now than they were when I lived nearer to West Hollywood and all those artsy fartsy, smelly old two-plex theaters than got converted into art houses because they couldn’t compete with a multiplex.

Services like Hulu is where Hollywood sees the future going, I guess, but that cannibalizing their own business model. They figure if online streaming is going to do to movies and TV what Napster, iTunes, and Pandora did to the music business, then they want to be iTunes. But that’s like an insignificant portion of Apple’s business!

^ This is essentially true, although it’s not just the ‘Chinese’ market but rather overseas markets in general.

China limits how many American films can be imported, and controls which one’s are imported while also controlling what form they end up in after being imported, so as a general market it’s only good if your movie can get past Chinese censors.

I don’t remember the same volume of alleged transgressions. Still, all they are is misuse of campaign funds, which is pretty minor league corruption. All it really means is he decided to go cheap by not hiring the right lawyers and accountants to cover it up.

“OWINGS MILLS, Md. — Ray Lewis said the Baltimore Ravens chose not to sign Colin Kaepernick after the quarterback’s girlfriend posted a “racist” tweet featuring the former All-Pro linebacker and owner Steve Bisciotti.

“We were going to close the deal to sign him,” Lewis said on Showtime’s “Inside the NFL” on Tuesday night. “Steve Bisciotti said, ‘I want to hear Colin Kaepernick speak to let me know that he wants to play football.'”

“And it never happens because that picture comes up the next day.”

The Aug. 2 tweet by Nessa Diab compared a picture of Lewis hugging Bisciotti to a scene from “Django Unchained,” in which Samuel L. Jackson as a loyal house slave held Leonardo DiCaprio’s cruel plantation owner character.

Why do you think he’s simply been an avatar for the Woke Social Justice crowd and hasn’t actually talked to the media in about two years? 1) Kaepernick is not that smart, which he showed in interviews shortly after he started sitting during the anthem and 2) she’s basically his political thought leader. If the two of them broke up, he’d be clueless on what to do next.

I think you have it backward. Reason doesn’t have anything to offer Nike. Nike has publicity already and Reason is jumping in to include themselves ? like people with nothing interesting to say talking about what they saw on the news.

Which also makes the slogan “Believe in something, even if it means sacrificing everything” all the more laughable. Kaep wasn’t kneeling when he was a starting quarterback. He didn’t sacrifice his career as a starting quarterback in order to support his beliefs.

He sacrificed his career as a backup QB to support his beliefs. And he’s gotten offers to continue being a backup QB and rejected them. Apparently, somewhere along the way, he determined that sacrificing his backup QB role to support his beliefs should have earned him a starting QB role.

Meanwhile, has he actually succeeded in raising any awareness or support for criminal justice reform? Or has he just become a pawn in the Trump Edition of Culture Warz?

Here is what showed all of the NFL protesters to be frauds. After Trump commuted the sentence of the woman whose cause Kim Kardasian was behind, Trump asked the NFL protestors for a list of people in federal prison that they felt sentence needed to be commuted as well and Trump promised to consider them. Maybe Trump was talking out of his ass and wouldn’t have commuted anyone’s sentence. We will never know because they never took him up on the offer.

How could they not do that? If he doesn’t act, you then have a real beef and can bring public attention to the cases. And if he does, you just got a bunch of people unfairly imprisoned out of prison. What is the down side?

The fact that they didn’t give him a list of names just shows that they are not serious or they are worried that Trump might actually commute people and that would make Democrats look bad.

Apparently so. Trump has the power to let anyone he wants out of federal prison with the stroke of a pen. How in the world could you not take him up on an invitation to submit names for people’s sentences to commute?

“Tucker: Robert Reich Calls for Trump’s Presidency to Be ‘Annulled,’ Setting a New Liberal Extreme”http://insider.foxnews.com/2018/08/27 /robert-reich-calls-trumps-presidency- be-annulled-tucker-carlson-reacts

We don’t have an app for that: “Is There A Cure? Unfortunately, medical science has not yet found a cure for Trump Derangement Syndrome. There is no medication, therapy, or procedure that can alleviate the previously mentioned symptoms. One can only break free of TDS when they go through an awakening in which they realize that the far left media has been lying to them about Trump and conservatives. However, this is a rare occurrence. It is safe to say that Trump Derangement Syndrome will remain a mental health issue for the foreseeable future.”https://www.libertynation.com/trump- derangement-syndrome-a-growing- mental-health-epidemic/

The SCOTUS made Obamacare legal when it is one of the most unconstitutional laws ever passed. Obamacare forces Americas to buy some product they dont want to, which is blatently unconstitutional. Its not a tax, or the government would collect it.

Domestic spying (patriot act), segregation, and japanese internment are some of the others.

Prioritize individual rights over corrupt police. Not sign on to extension and expansion of warrantless wiretapping. Pay attention to the injustices of ICE. Use executive order to deprioritize enforcement of marijuana laws that are more strict than state laws.

He’s got a million opportunities. The only ones that see any attention are the ones that affect big business.

1. Police are mostly state law enforcement. That has almost nothing to do with the Executive branch. 2. I agree with you on that one. Trump can end unconstitutional domestic spying immediately. 3. The Lefties hate ICE. All abuses of ICE are swiftly being exposed and dealt with. In fact, I would say ICE agents get less protection than regulate abusive cops. The deportations are not injustices. 4. Only Congress or the SCOTUS can end the unconstitutional Controlled Substances Act. The president can drag his feet on drug enforcement, which is what Trump is doing.

Feel free to give Trump credit for dragging his feet on drug enforcement. You wont, but feel free.

1) The DOJ is tasked with enforcing civil rights laws against state and local police. That has ended under Trump. 2) No interest in protecting people’s rights. 3) ICE has been abusive for a long time. Anyone who claims to care about peoples’ rights would be against it. The only limits on ICE now are the ones that are court enforced, and those aren’t even being followed. 4) http://www.reuters.com/article…..SKBN1ET1MU He’s been talk on legalization, action on criminalization.

I think Trump is probably missing the opportunity that Obama left for him: Nominate people to the judiciary without any judicial experience, with the explicit notion that they’ll simply rubber stamp things based on how they feel instead of it having anything to do with the law. We already know that type of nominee will make it through, well at least if they vote D they will.

You see, that’s how you shred the constitution. Putting people in charge of defending it that haven’t ever even read it, and frankly couldn’t care less about it. Trump is doing a terrible job at destroying the constitution with the courts, it’s almost like he isn’t a progressive…